A service must reach the people it serves, or else it is not a service. Medicine is culturally specific. An Asian doctor serving an Asian community makes sense!
Dr Shirine Boardman used one Trust database to furnish another Trust database in a hospital that already practices Smart Card Sharing. Meanwhile, her work won prizes (NHS choices ) and she had an impact on the community she served. She was instrumental in setting up the Apnee Sehat project.
I am not Asian, I am not diabetic and I don't work in Leamington Spa. But it is in my interests that the population of this country are encouraged and supported in their need to be healthy.
We cannot continue with this style of Health Service Management.
Competency-based, tick-the-box regulations, protecting those who learn the "rules" not those who know how to do the work. We need people with integrity whom we trust to do the right thing working with systems that support their good intentions. Not a regulatory nightmare subverted by anxious bureaucrats, giving whatever decision most helps their career.
I trust Dr Shirine Boardman did the right thing by her patients and the community that she served. I trust Dr Boardman's integrity and her good intentions.
I do not believe that South Warwickshire Trust and its encumbent CEO has the integrity or good intentions required to carry out the job for which they are paid. In short, they appear to be working for themselves and their own political ends and not their community.
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..."
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The evidence
Smartcard sharing by an NHS trust.
Connecting for Health condemns smartcard sharing.
NHS Security Dilemma as smartcards shared.
South Warwickshire NHS Trust authorises sharing of smartcards.
South Warwickshire clinicians sharing smartcards usage.
Computer Misuse act 1990
Smartcard sharing by an NHS trust.
Connecting for Health condemns smartcard sharing.
NHS Security Dilemma as smartcards shared.
South Warwickshire NHS Trust authorises sharing of smartcards.
South Warwickshire clinicians sharing smartcards usage.
Computer Misuse act 1990
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